Coconut wine?

[FlamingoEmporium]

And we’re off !

Step one, gather your coconuts. Young coconuts full of water. The brown outside is frost burn from a month or so ago.

Then skillfully chop off their top so you can get the water out.
a little over one gallon in the bucket.

Couple of small chunks of grass floating in there and a few little tiny pieces of husk that fell in. They will ferment out. . Enzyme and energizer are now stirred in.
Not sure if I should wait for 24 hours to pitch the yeast. Not too sure what the enzyme will be acting on in there. ill check the coconut water SG shortly and then add sugar.

10 -15 young coconuts required. Depends on how big you’re nuts are.

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

You remember when you were little and you’re friends dared you to do something ? Jump your bike off an ironing board ramp, shoot an arrow in the air and run, eat something weird, ? You know That feeling ?

in the back of my mind I hear my Mom saying…”if all your friends told you to make coconut wine does that mean you should do it ?”

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

2.25 lbs. sugar
SG 1.088

 

[Raptor99]

OK 2 more 1 gallon jugs on the way. I’m resisting the urge to make 3 -6 gallons at a time. My house isn’t that big.

stay tuned for pictures this afternoon.

I've been reading your posts with interest: fresh pinapple, mango, and coconuts. I love mango! Very different from what grows in my neighborhood: berries, apples, peaches, pears. We make wine from what we have available to us.

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

We make wine from what we have available to us.

that’s the whole idea. If I lived in Northern California I would Probably make wine out of grapes. If I lived in Alaska, I would have to make, Snow wine.

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

I guess this is fermentation.

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

OK. Now there doesn’t appear to be fermentation going on.
less than 15 hours later.

now what.?

 

[winemaker81]

OK. Now there doesn’t appear to be fermentation going on.
less than 15 hours later.

now what.?

Exercise patience. And use your hydrometer to judge progress. If the SG is dropping, there is activity.

Your yeast may be shy and not want to reproduce in front of you

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

1.082
I put some Barry White on pandora.
bow chickee wow wow

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

Look what I found in the freezer.



3 pounds of Passion Fruit

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

SG 1.072 today. I’ll take it.
sharp smell when sniffing bucket, but not in glass.
It tasted wonderful. Sweet of course, since still a lot of sugar not eaten, but coconuty and yummy.
I'm hoping……

color is now a cloudy semi clear. It’s actually a nice color.

I had to go back for a second sip.

if this works out I WILL be asking friends for coconuts.

 

[ChuckD]

View attachment 86174SG 1.072 today. I’ll take it.
sharp smell when sniffing bucket, but not in glass.
It tasted wonderful. Sweet of course, since still a lot of sugar not eaten, but coconuty and yummy.
I'm hoping……

color is now a cloudy semi clear. It’s actually a nice color.

I had to go back for a second sip.

if this works out I WILL be asking friends for coconuts.

That looks like a wonderful base for all your other tropical goodies

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

That looks like a wonderful base for all your other tropical goodies

Indeed. Even if it finishes with a lower ABV should be great to backsweeten or blend

 

[David Violante]

We’re going to have to visit!

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

Fermentation not as “shy” today. Got a nice set of bubbles on top.
“Go coconut Go”
SG reading later today.

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

OK. This is really getting interesting. It’s been bubbling nicely all day today so I just let it be.
took an SG reading tonight, and of course I HAD to taste it.
1.060
oh my goodness. The taste ! It was almost like a coconut soda at this point. Very flavorful and almost carbonated. This is shaping up to be a keeper. Color similar to yesterday. Maybe just a little milkier, not much. Kind of opaque.

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

Fermentation makes me happy !

1.052 Today

 

[FlamingoEmporium]

1.036 tonight.

tastes a little different now. Not bad, just different. More like mature coconut water than young coconut water. I’m wondering if coconut water ferments a little in older mature fruit on the tree ?
managed to spill a little on the floor. Sticky stuff. Guess who will be mopping the kitchen tomorrow.

 

[BigDaveK]

I'm following your experiment with great interest!!

I'm pretty sure the coconuts on the tree would need oxygen and yeast to ferment. Whack with your machete or drill a couple holes, protect from bugs, see what Mother Nature does. The drops from my fruit trees are a favorite with yellow jackets, raccoons, and deer. The entire area smells "boozy".

 

[Rice_Guy]

On crops like corn the grains go through milk stage into dough and then dehydrate making dent corn. very likely that coco nut also does this sequence.
Occasionally the lab would run something as tissue culture on plant material. For this the exterior would be sanitized, cut open with sterile knives and then “collected” . ,,, The interior of plants as well as animals is assumed to be sterile. If there are microbes in the tissue it is diseased.

1.036 tonight. , , tastes a little different now. Not bad, just different. More like mature coconut water than young coconut water. I’m wondering if coconut water ferments a little in older mature fruit on the tree ?